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Carbon credits need fixing, not killing

Carbon credits need fixing, not killing

The current regime tempts greenhouse gas emitters to buy their way out of their obligations rather than taking genuine steps to reduce their carbon...

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Financial Review

The Afr View

The carbon offset fantasy is falling apart

The carbon offset fantasy is falling apart

We need to stop approving new gas and coal export projects, scrap our subsidies and invest heavily in decarbonising our energy and households.

yesterday 10

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Richard Denniss

If you suspect your profession is dying, it’s already gone

If you suspect your profession is dying, it’s already gone

Younger workers, in particular, are likely to anticipate technological changes to industries and steer clear of them, exacerbating the profession’s...

yesterday 10

Financial Review

Sarah O'Connor

Perpetual’s painful asset management odyssey

Perpetual’s painful asset management odyssey

A creeping private equity takeover offer and another painful update leave the company’s long-suffering shareholders begging for the misery to end.

yesterday 10

Financial Review

Jonathan Shapiro

Disclosure rules must let us track the money and influence

Disclosure rules must let us track the money and influence

We need to close loopholes used by politicians to get around donation guidelines.

previous day 10

Financial Review

The Afr View

Sticky inflation, cooling house prices: Inside the RBA’s rates dilemma

Sticky inflation, cooling house prices: Inside the RBA’s rates dilemma

The Australian economy has been too reliant on the easy money gains from housing, so a rebalancing could reallocate labour into more productive areas.

previous day 10

Financial Review

John Kehoe

Michele Bullock has the ballroom blues

Michele Bullock has the ballroom blues

The Sydney Sheraton’s ballroom was packed to hear Michele Bullock’s Anika Foundation address. But try as she might, she could deliver only a...

previous day 10

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Jonathan Shapiro

Albanese’s secret dinner shows donation laws aren’t transparent enough

Albanese’s secret dinner shows donation laws aren’t transparent enough

The prime minister may well attend “lots of dinners” – but the law needs to give us confidence he’s there for ideas, not money.

previous day 10

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Kate Griffiths

Labor’s IR laws making housing crisis harder to solve

Labor’s IR laws making housing crisis harder to solve

We should be wary of unions that set the terms for the construction industry given the experiences with the CFMEU.

previous day 10

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Allegra Spender

Vic Labor’s fate is sealed. Can Liberals seize a golden opportunity?

Vic Labor’s fate is sealed. Can Liberals seize a golden opportunity?

Jess Wilson needs to rise above small-target electioneering and win a mandate to be tough and decisive in repairing the catastrophic state of the...

tuesday 10

Financial Review

Terry Barnes

Trump’s Iran missile shortage means Australia must make more weapons

Trump’s Iran missile shortage means Australia must make more weapons

The world’s most powerful military is confronting a reality that should concern every Western ally.

tuesday 2

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Steve Baxter

Allan’s erratic fight for self-preservation was her undoing

Allan’s erratic fight for self-preservation was her undoing

Jacinta Allan’s defiance on the leadership stakes could confirm why many MPs moved against her – she is willing to blow up the party to save her...

tuesday 10

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Sumeyya Ilanbey

New AI standards offer investors the certainty clean energy needs

New AI standards offer investors the certainty clean energy needs

Requiring tech giants to fund clean electricity will unlock vital long-term capital for Australia’s grid transformation.

tuesday 10

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Carly Wishart

Trump’s anti-slavery tariffs are good news for Australia

Trump’s anti-slavery tariffs are good news for Australia

Exemption of major exports and renewed market certainty mean local business can thrive despite Washington’s new supply chain penalties.

tuesday 10

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Richard Holden

Allan’s loss is hopefully the start of Victoria and Australia’s gain

Allan’s loss is hopefully the start of Victoria and Australia’s gain

A leadership spill in Melbourne is purely cosmetic without deep economic reform to dismantle union dominance and reckless spending.

tuesday 10

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The Afr View

Workers are already nostalgic for life before AI

Workers are already nostalgic for life before AI

Almost two-thirds of white-collar workers regularly yearn for their old working life, according to consultancy Adaptavist.

27.07.2026 4

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Emma Jacobs

Time is over for tinkering with how we divide the GST pie

Time is over for tinkering with how we divide the GST pie

Increasing the rate and broadening the base would open up opportunities for broader tax reform, including addressing our over-reliance on income...

27.07.2026 10

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Melissa Bray

Albanese’s Fair Work Court courts a bigger economic disaster

Albanese’s Fair Work Court courts a bigger economic disaster

Australia is groaning under the burden of regulation and setting up yet another legal bureaucracy will only deepen the nation’s productivity hole.

27.07.2026 10

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Ian Hanke

Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it

Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it

It is bizarre that while the politics of agriculture has focused on taxes, the actual business is threatened by a phenomenon that bloggers still call...

27.07.2026 10

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Tim Stanley

Does Alan Joyce belong in post-Qantas boardrooms?

Does Alan Joyce belong in post-Qantas boardrooms?

It’s surely of concern that an aspiring director remains defensive about legitimate media scrutiny of company decision-making, which is part of...

27.07.2026 10

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The Afr View

Britain feels the Burn as new PM puts spin over substance

Britain feels the Burn as new PM puts spin over substance

Newly installed leader Andy Burnham has made a good start with voters. But he is yet to make any tough decisions.

27.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Andrew Tillett

Are sports stars in finance a waste of time?

Are sports stars in finance a waste of time?

Novak Djokovic is the latest of many athletic recruits to financial services, but their real value to the company may be surprising.

27.07.2026 20

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Emma Jacobs

Trump may be wrong on ‘stolen elections’ – but China isn’t innocent, either

Trump may be wrong on ‘stolen elections’ – but China isn’t innocent, either

Just as the USSR sought to infiltrate Hollywood filmmaking, China is using social media today to harm American political cohesion.

27.07.2026 10

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John Bolton

Incivility is what’s common to soccer and antisemitism

Incivility is what’s common to soccer and antisemitism

This is 2026 Australia, a country suddenly rife with rampant, vicious discord. It is as if the culture of Argentinian soccer players is spreading like...

26.07.2026 10

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John Carroll

Investors say new Macquarie chief must go hard on culture overhaul

Investors say new Macquarie chief must go hard on culture overhaul

Greg Ward has won the backing of shareholders, but some want him to work on the financial services giant’s governance and regulatory oversight as a...

25.07.2026 10

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Joanne Tran

Unprecedented tech inflation will drive rates higher

Unprecedented tech inflation will drive rates higher

AI is driving the biggest capex boom in 235 years, creating a world where we see the Fed spin 180 degrees and raise rates twice in the coming months.

25.07.2026 40

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Christopher Joye

Greg Ward’s first task? Saving Macquarie’s bottom up culture

Greg Ward’s first task? Saving Macquarie’s bottom up culture

Shemara Wikramanayake has done a stellar job of growing earnings, but that has come at the expense of robust risk management and accountability.

25.07.2026 10

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Joyce Moullakis

Money and power on the dinner menu for Albanese

Money and power on the dinner menu for Albanese

The prime minister’s decision to attend a fundraising dinner at the $40 million harbourside mansion occupied by Felix Lee could be a serious lapse...

24.07.2026 10

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The Afr View

Odds are Allan is gone, while Albanese repeats Victorian Labor’s woes

Odds are Allan is gone, while Albanese repeats Victorian Labor’s woes

If the national conference delegates want an insight into the future of the Albanese style of economic management, they only need to check out the...

24.07.2026 10

Financial Review

John Black

Culture war ideologues have hijacked Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

Culture war ideologues have hijacked Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

As go the arguments about the blockbuster movie, so go our conversations about fairness, gender, race and immigration. And so go our elections.

24.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Gen Z aren’t fazed by running the company. They’re fearful of failing

Gen Z aren’t fazed by running the company. They’re fearful of failing

As a psychologist, what strikes me isn’t the ambition itself, it’s the anxiety that increasingly seems to accompany it.

24.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Clare Rowe

Labor’s political speed dating is working ministers to the bone

Labor’s political speed dating is working ministers to the bone

Some ministers will host more than 40 meetings across the two-and-half day event, which at 15 minutes a pop is 10 hours of listening to lobbyists beg...

24.07.2026 5

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Ronald Mizen

Burnham’s promise to end rough sleeping as futile as CEO sleepouts

Burnham’s promise to end rough sleeping as futile as CEO sleepouts

It’s time to admit homelessness is not about homes, but about complicated lives.

24.07.2026 10

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Pru Goward

Hanson looms large over Labor’s showcase event

Hanson looms large over Labor’s showcase event

The One Nation leader isn’t in Adelaide, but the vibe at the ALP national conference is that her party is omnipresent.

24.07.2026 20

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Phillip Coorey

OpenAI’s rogue agent hacked this company. It turned to China for help

OpenAI’s rogue agent hacked this company. It turned to China for help

The hacking incident raised concerns about more sophisticated cyberattacks, but it also meant Hugging Face opted to use a Chinese model to probe the...

23.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Jessica Sier

Gas tax off the stage, but not out of bounds

Gas tax off the stage, but not out of bounds

There is no room for a Peronist-style flat tax on gas exports, but there is a place for a sensible discussion about what a fit-for-purpose gas...

23.07.2026 10

Financial Review

The Afr View

The algorithm could halt Pauline Hanson’s rise, as it did for Jacinta Price

The algorithm could halt Pauline Hanson’s rise, as it did for Jacinta Price

The feed does lie to politicians and for some of them who lack understanding about how these platforms are engineered, the consequences can be career...

23.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Kos Samaras

When the AI breaks out of the vault, guardrails won’t protect business

When the AI breaks out of the vault, guardrails won’t protect business

An unprompted AI agent just hacked a major platform. Australian businesses need to wake up to autonomous cyber risk.

23.07.2026 9

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Alastair Macgibbon

Much of what AI needs to learn is in workers’ heads, not on the web

Much of what AI needs to learn is in workers’ heads, not on the web

General-purpose AI models are simply not very good at many tasks that require both domain and institutional knowledge. This might give employees...

23.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Sarah O'Connor

The real tax problem for start-ups is high-income tax not CGT concessions

The real tax problem for start-ups is high-income tax not CGT concessions

Identifying in real time genuinely innovative early-stage companies that add to productivity and has broader spillover benefits is fraught with...

23.07.2026 10

Financial Review

John Kehoe

The $160b unions want to hand taxpayers at Labor Party conference

The $160b unions want to hand taxpayers at Labor Party conference

Nowhere in the 30 pages of the AMWU’s “blueprint for action” is a single demand costed. So HR Nicholls has done a line-by-line analysis. The...

23.07.2026 9

Financial Review

James Mathias

Avoid AI hiring overreliance – and regulatory overreach

Avoid AI hiring overreliance – and regulatory overreach

We should be wary of the union push for Labor to impose strict limits on AI use at work. That would go against the general rule that the best form of...

23.07.2026 10

Financial Review

The Afr View

AI isn’t just screening CVs. It’s helping Gen X women quit

AI isn’t just screening CVs. It’s helping Gen X women quit

The most experienced women across the workplace are redirecting their earning power, and inheritance, into their own ventures.

22.07.2026 30

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Andrea Clarke

Moonshot K3 is tip of China’s spear to fight American AI

Moonshot K3 is tip of China’s spear to fight American AI

Xi Jinping’s vision for global AI co-operation reads as a form of neo-nonalignment – a means by which to circumvent US centrality.

22.07.2026 20

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Johanna Costigan

From $5 darling to 12¢ dud, MilkLab owner’s time to pay for the piper

From $5 darling to 12¢ dud, MilkLab owner’s time to pay for the piper

Nifty refinancings buy time, but it’s difficult to trade out of them.

22.07.2026 20

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Chanticleer

AI has a woman problem. It could cost us dearly

AI has a woman problem. It could cost us dearly

When half the population is directly threatened and poorly engaged, we cannot expect to make meaningful socio-economic gains.

22.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Rashina Hoda

Left-wing leaders want to restore faith in politics. But at what cost?

Left-wing leaders want to restore faith in politics. But at what cost?

Anthony Albanese and Andy Burnham want to improve the political system. But politicians, high on newfound power, have a habit of making promises they...

22.07.2026 20

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The Afr View

Trump once again eyes regime change in Iran quagmire

Trump once again eyes regime change in Iran quagmire

America cannot achieve its aims by negotiation and Iran’s missile strikes will become more intense in coming years. Regime change is back on the...

21.07.2026 10

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Gideon Rachman

Qantas non-stop flights just flew over Europe’s carbon border

Qantas non-stop flights just flew over Europe’s carbon border

Project Sunrise is built around ultra-long-haul flying and avoids the risk of higher prices and weaker business case for adding continental European...

21.07.2026 8

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Peter Harbison

The Federal Reserve needs to tighten monetary policy

The Federal Reserve needs to tighten monetary policy

If the Fed dawdles, the risk is that market participants will judge Fed chairman Kevin Warsh’s tough talk as “all hat, no cattle”.

21.07.2026 10

Financial Review

Bill Dudley